Apple – Power Mac G5 – Performance The boneheads at Apple have left up this page on their site talking trash about the Intel chips. Har!
The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests. But it’s in the rough-and-tumble of real-world performance that the G5 really shines — shredding the PC’s reputation in the process.
The Power Mac G5 puts tremendous creative firepower at your disposal. Your unfair advantages start with the PowerPC G5, a powerful 64-bit processor, running at clock speeds of up to 2.7GHz. Combine that with 1.35GHz dual-independent frontside buses, an advanced system controller, a fast 128-bit 400MHz memory bus and state-of-the-art expansion, and you begin to understand why the Power Mac G5 is the kind of machine a PC wouldn’t want to compete for a job against. (1)
Yeah,
These guys noticed it, too.
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=32951&afterinter=true
Scott Kelby Comments on Apple’s Move to Intel Chip:
I just had this “MacTel” discussion with my buddy (and major Mac guru) Terry White this morning, and we both feel pretty much the same way: as long as it works, it’s fine by us. Apple’s earlier move from Motorola to IBM didn’t change our world much, so I don’t see why this move should be any different, except for the fact that this time there may be some real upside for Apple, for a number of reasons:
(1) Big business and government are comfortable with having “Intel Inside” and if that makes them more comfortable with buying Macs, then I’m all for it
(2) This opens the possibility of one day running Longhorn and Mac OS X on the same box, and that will appeal to a lot of those same people
(3) Lower chip costs might enable Apple to become even more competitive pricing wise
But even with those three things, I just don’t think it’s a big deal. it will make some people happy, some not, but in the long run it’s not really going to change our “Mac experience” much, if at all. It’s just the chip. I used to laugh at those Intel TV ads that made it sound like if you had an Intel chip in your box, that your Internet experience was somehow enhanced. So, now, do I think my Internet experience (or anything for that matter) will be enhanced? No. I think it helps make Macs more attractive to certain segments of the marketplace, and I think it makes people who are extremely megahertz- sensitive feel better. Outside of that, I think our lives will pretty much remain the same.
This is likely intentional. They still have to sell PowerPC chips for at least another 1 1/2 years!
I can’t figure out why Apple didn’t go with AMD chips… They can continue to trash Intel and continue to use superior chips!
Bob Cringely is suggesting that Intel will buy Apple.